"Is it the factitious and the conventional that……" — Paul Cezanne
"Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?"
More Conventional Quotes
- Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
- The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment… — Walter Benjamin
- In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary… — Ezra Taft Benson
- When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. — Mayim Bialik
- There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down… — Kathryn Bigelow
- A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good… — Augustine Birrell
- I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television.… — Anthony Bourdain
- No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and… — Andre Breton
- The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need… — Jerry Brown
- Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound… — Noam Chomsky
- Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could… — Lester Grinspoon
- In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work… — Northrop Frye